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A look inside the device reveals familiar smartphone functions, but dig a little deeper and it becomes clear that the regime can monitor everything you type and watch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

That was a pointed dig at the then Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer who was trying to block Burnham's pathway to No 10.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

"I keep wanting them to let me dig it up and put something else in it that's not as good."

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Friedman and Gomes were intrigued enough to have their group dig into the evolution of Heyward’s swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

I think about how difficult it is to get dandelions out of the garden—their roots go so deep, sometimes you have to dig a foot down to get the whole thing out.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

She said current digs were "really construction projects" where workers had stumbled across historical treasures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Owens has successfully positioned herself as a journalist, an investigator, someone who digs deep and asks the hard questions, Spencer said.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Just compare the girls’ cluttered digs with their pursuers’ sterile white suits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

He shakes his head and digs in his pocket.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

“It seemed like it digged the piece,” Aitken said, as wide-eyed and sincere as he is when talking about all of his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved off.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

An AFP correspondent saw workers digging dozens more graves on Sunday in a forest clearing on the outskirts of the town.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

"Our group is now digging into that question by asking whether animals that change their behavior in response to human pressures are at greater or lower risk of dying."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

I told him I didn’t know yet but that I’d do some digging.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

She pointed to news of road construction crews digging deeper and deeper into Brazil’s Amazon forest, which she said will inevitably “bring us into contact with birds and bugs” and the disease-baggage they carry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Possibly two of the three, Nell,” Aunt Kitty called from the back room, her arms in the wardrobe again and digging so quickly that she seemed like some sort of high-strung gopher.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Nepali rescuers drilled, dug and used explosives on Sunday in a bid to reach dozens of hydropower workers believed trapped in tunnels swamped by flood debris, racing against time to find survivors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Bill Peters dug further into the retailer’s results, including the difficulties at Foot Locker, which Dick’s acquired last year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

After two months, participants dug them up, photographed them, and sent the material to the laboratory along with soil samples for further study.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

When I dug into the straw inside, I found an envelope set on top of a carved incense stand.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu